comparison of barriers related to medical-health systems for controlling diabetes type ii from the viewpoints of patients, families and nurses

Background: today, diabetes has become a major challenge for health systems around the globe. it is important to determine patients, families and nurses’ viewpoints and consider their views for controlling diabetes. objectives: the aim of this study was to compare the obstacles related to medical-health systems from the viewpoints of patients, families and nurses in the diabetes association of ahvaz city, iran, during year 2012 in order to effectively control diabetes. patients and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 75 patients with diabetes and 75 family members of these patients and 75 nurses were randomly selected. the applied tool for data gathering was a questionnaire provided by the researchers and consisted of two parts; the first part of the questions was related to demographic characteristics and the second part was related to obstacles for controlling diabetes. the spss (19th version) software and deductive and descriptive statistics were applied for analyzing the data. results: the results of this research showed that there was a significant difference among mean scores of obstacles related to medical-health systems from the viewpoint of patients, families and nurses (p = 0.001), so that patients gave a maximum mean score (52.81) and nurses gave a minimum mean score (46.61) for these obstacles. conclusions: regarding the results, it could be suggested that the reason for not being able to control diabetes was the existence of differences among viewpoints while by getting to know the obstacles for controlling diabetes from the viewpoints of the three studied groups, more effective planning for controlling diabetes could be possible.